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Tag Archives: Norman Mailer
dreyfus: cones of darkness
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Hubert Henry, Col. Jean Sandherr, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, George Whyte, Georges Melies, Hannah Arendt, Joseph Heller Catch-22, Leslie Derfler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Mailer, The Dreyfus Affair
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echoes of the beat
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design): TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More … Continue reading
shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever
and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading
master of the underground
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) I’ve never met nor have had the opportunity to work with Crumb, though I have friends who know him (and have even vacationed at his home in the South … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged aline kominsky, allen katzman, Art Spiegelman, Cheap Thrill Big Brother and the Holding Company, Comix, dan rattiner, george metzger, Harvey Pekar, harvey pekar american splendor, jack kirby, jesse marinoff reyes, kim deitch, Norman Mailer, peter joseph leggieri, Robert Crumb, roger brand, spain rodriguez, The Other, trina robbins, vaughn bode, walter bowart, zap comix
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naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”
“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading
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Tagged aminatta forna, dick cavett, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, Jane Austen, Jonathan McIntosh, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath, margaret gooding, Norman Mailer, patrick french, paul theroux, rob nixon, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, v.s. naipaul, william langley
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mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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wearing a mask that grins and lies
We often have a sometimes contradictory and ambiguous relationship to popular culture. In one way, its potentially powerful means to share knowledge and criticize consumer society across different boundaries in an oppositional and sometimes subversive manner. However, against this backdrop, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Grace Lee Boggs, jane campion, jean michel basquiet, jodie foster, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, Julian Schnabel, norman kelley, Norman Mailer, Robert Hughes, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, zora neale hurston
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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes
Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Agatha Christie, Amin Sharif, Eldridge Cleaver, Ernest Hemingway, Gil Scott-Heron, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Roger Ebert, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, The Last Poets, William Faulkner, William Klein
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PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind
Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Breton, Carl Goldstein, Darth Vader, David Galenson, Donald Kuspit, Edmond Fortier, Edward Fry, Ernst Junger, Fernande Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, J.K. Huysmans, jack Flam, John Berger, Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Richman The Modern Lovers, Laura Ball, Leo Steinberg, Max Kosloff, Megan Meighan, Michele Leight, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Richard Hamilton, Robert J. Sternberg, Robert Smithson, Rosalind Krauss, Satie, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, Vladimir Tatlin
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